Watson Racist
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA structure has stirred the race vs. intelligence debate (once again). His previous controversial exhortations have included, “a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual” and “black people have higher libidos.” If nothing, he at least proves intelligence and education doesn’t necessarily make you worthy of respect. Sakshi and Ashutosh have more to say.
“Watson Racist” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2218] was published Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 3:12 pm by Patrix, filed under Asides, Society Culture, and tagged as racism, Science. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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I’m not sure about his other pronouncements but you might find the following links interesting re his IQ-vs-race comments:
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
and http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178123/nav/ais/
I think Watson was mistaken when he suggested that development policy ought to account for IQ differences (there are lots of public policy rationales for that, not to mention the fact that IQ is a very dodgy measure of smarts anyway) but I think you and the other posters ought to acknowledge he wasn’t just making stuff up because he is racist.
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